1935 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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1935 YEAR BOOK of Jehovah's witnesses
REPORT
AMERICA
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
FACTORY
PRODUCTION
RAW MATERIAL
MECHANICAL DEVICES
MACHINERY
FAMILY AT BETHEL
ACCOMMODATIONS
SHIPMENTS
PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION
OPPOSITION
PERMITS
RADIO
PROTEST
CHAIN PROGRAMS
MECHANICAL DEVICES
PHONOGRAPHS
PUBUSHERS
TESTIMONY CARDS
DIVISIONAL CAMPAIGNS
INTERNATIONAL
REGIONAL DIRECTORS
COMPANY SERVICE DIRECTORS
CONVENTIONS
ORDAINED REPRESENTATIVES
ORDAINED REPRESENTATIVES
OUTSIDE TERRITORY
THE GOLDEN AGE
THE WATCHTOWER
CORRESPONDENCE
THE FIELD
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AFRICA (East and South)
AFRICA (West)
ARGENTINA
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
BRITAIN
BRITISH GUIANA
BULGARIA
CANADA
CENTRAL EUROPEAN OFFICE
CHINA
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
DANZIG
DENMARK
EGYPT
ESTONIA
FINLAND
FRANCE
GERMANY
GREECE
HAWAII
HOLLAND (THE NETHERLANDS)
HUNGARY
ICELAND
INDIA
ITALY
JAMAICA
JAPAN
KOREA
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBURG
MEXICO
NORTHERN EUROPEAN OFFICE
NORWAY
PALESTINE
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
POLAND
RUMANIA
SAAR BASIN
SPAIN
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
SYRIA
TRINIDAD
TURKEY
YUGOSLAVIA
CONCLUSION
REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING
YEAR TEXT
YEAR BOOK
of Jehovah’s witnesses
Containing
Report of the Year 1934
with
Daily Texts and Comments for 1935
Corporate Publishers:
Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
Peoples Pulpit Association
International Bible Students Association
Brooklyn, New York, U. S. A.
Branch Offices appear on last page
Copyright 1934
Made in the United States of America
WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY
OFFICERS:
J. F. Rutherford
President
C. A. Wise
Vice-President
W. E. Van Amburgh
Secretary and Treasurer
PEOPLES PULPIT ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS:
J. F. Rutherford
President
N. H. Knorr
Vice-President
A. R. Goux
Secretary and Treasurer
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS:
J. F. Rutherford
President
Jesse Hemery
Vice-President
E. C. Chitty
Secretary
W. E. Van Amburgh
Ass’t Secretary and Treasurer
1935 YEAR BOOK of Jehovah's witnesses
JEHOVAH’S KINGDOM, ruling the world in righteousness and peace, has long been the hope of all those who love righteousness and hate lawlessness. From the time that God said to Abraham, ‘In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed,’ hope of that blessed time has been strong in the mind of faithful men. For centuries holy men of old looked for the coming of the Messiah, whom God would use to establish his righteous government on earth. More than nineteen centuries ago the angels of heaven dramatically announced the birth of Jesus, and that company of heavenly messengers, at the bidding of Jehovah, sung the anthem: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” —Luke 2:14.
Thirty years after that memorable announcement the perfect man Jesus began his ministry on earth by making announcement in these words: ‘ ‘ The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” By that is understood that Jesus had been anointed by Jehovah God as and for the King of heaven and earth and that in due time he would rule the world in righteousness. For three and one-half years thereafter Jesus went about preaching the good news of God’s provision for man and teaching the people the way of righteousness. In his work Jesus was constantly opposed by the men who claimed to be serving God and who were at that time called the clergy, made up of priests, Pharisees andSadducees. Their opposition to Jesus was due to the fact that, having undertaken to serve Jehovah God, they had become unfaithful and had fallen victims to the seductive influence of the Devil. For this reason Jesus said to them, in substance: ‘God is not your Father, but you are the children of the Devil, because you do what he desires.’ (John 8:42-44) From that day till the present time every person who has faithfully followed in the footsteps of Jesus has been the object of Satan’s attacks, and that visible opposition has been carried on chiefly by clergymen or those who claim to be representatives of God on earth. Jesus told his disciples it would be so and that such opposition would continue until the will of God is done on earth as it is done in heaven, and hence he taught them to pray for the coming of the Kingdom. (John 15:19, 20; Matt. 6:9,10) The facts fully support that utterance of Jesus.
Shortly before his crucifixion Jesus told his disciples that he was going away and would receive the kingdom from Jehovah but that in due time he would come again and receive his faithful followers unto himself and set up his kingdom. For this cause the chief question in their minds and the one which they propounded to Jesus was: ‘What shall be the proof of thy coming or end of the world and the kingdom?' (John 14:1-3; Matt. 24:1-7) After the resurrection of Jesus from the dead and his ascension into heaven the mind of each one of the apostles was illuminated and they discerned that the coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of his kingdom was a long time in the future, and from that time they went about teaching the people who would hear, admonishing them to be faithful until the coming of the Lord. From the days of the apostles until the present time there have been faithful men and women on earth who have prayed and looked for the coming of Christ Jesus and the setting up of his kingdom of righteousness for the benefit of the children of men.
About the year 1880 (A.D.) a few honest and sincere followers of Christ Jesus came together in Pennsylvania for the studying of the Scriptures, particularly with reference to the second coming of the Lord and his kingdom. The result was that shortly thereafter a society was organized for the study and the proclamation of the truth of God’s Word. That Society was first named Zion’s Watch Tower Society. Later incorporated, its name was changed to that of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. It was incorporated that the work of these men and women in proclaiming the truth might be carried forward in a lawful and orderly manner. Into this Society or organization came men and women from the various Catholic and Protestant church organizations in the land and there came also some from outside all church organizations. These faithful followers of Christ Jeans saw that the organizations on earth called "churches" are in fact human organizations and that their forms of worship and doctrines are out of harmony with Jehovah God and his kingdom under Christ. Having only one purpose in mind, these faithful ones then went about amongst the people, teaching them and instructing them concerning the second coming of Christ and his kingdom. Opposition to their work began at once, which opposition has at all times proceeded chiefly from priests, pastors and preachers of church organizations. Regardless of all opposition these faithful men and women have continued in their work of telling others concerning God and his gracious provision for the blessing of mankind as these truths are set forth in the Bible.
In the year 1909 it seemed proper that there should be formed a corporation under the laws of the State of New York to further the interest and the work above mentioned, and accordingly the Peoples Pulpit Association was organized. The same officers were elected to manage the corporation as those elected to manage the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, because the work of the two organizations is the same. This Christian missionary work progressed in America and outside thereof and it was deemed proper that a corporation be formed at London, England, and this was done in the year 1914 by the formation of the International, Bible Students Association, being incorporated under the laws of Great Britain. These three corporations are one in fact, doing identically the same work.
As Jehovah continued to unfold the prophecies to his people and to make it more clearly appear to them what is his purpose, they saw that God has taken out from the nations of earth a ‘‘people for his name” and that those so taken out and separated from the world must be witnesses to the name of Jehovah. It was in the year 1931 that these faithful men and women saw that it is the will of God as expressed by the Scriptures that they should be called ‘‘Jehovah’s witnesses’’, and for this reason they are today throughout the earth known and designated as ‘‘Jehovah’s witnesses”, and the aforementioned corporations carry on the work of Jehovah’s witnesses as above stated. The chief objective and purpose of these witnesses is to bear testimony to the name of Jehovah, inform the people that he is the only true and almighty God, that Christ Jesus is his King, and that the kingdom of heaven is now at hand. This is the work they are doing.
When Satan inaugurated his rebellion against Jehovah in Eden God sentenced him to destruction. However, because Satan had challenged God and defied him to put men on earth who under severe test would remain true and faithful to Jehovah and righteousness, and in order to permit proof to be made that Satan is wickedly wrong and that Jehovah God is always right and righteous, God said to Satan: ‘‘But for this cause have I allowed thee to remain, in order to show thee my power; and in order that they may proclaim my name throughout all the earth.” (Ex. 9:16, Leeser) This explains why God has permitted wickedness in the earth for such a long period of time. Now the time has come for the great controversy, issue or question between Jehovah and the Adversary to be settled for ever, and it will be settled, as the Scriptures show, at the battle of Armageddon. Just before that great conflict Jehovah God commands his witnesses to go throughout the land and to make publication of his name and of his kingdom under Christ. It is to be expected that Satan and his agents would bitterly oppose this work of Jehovah’s witnesses; and it is even so. The witness work of advertising amongst the people the truth of Jehovah and his kingdom, and that it is the only hope of the world, continues to progress amidst great opposition from the enemy. The report that follows herein will enable you to see how that work is progressing, and what is being done by the enemy to interfere with it, and what you may expect in the near future. It is hoped that many who read this report will see that the conditions now obtaining on the earth are exactly what is to be expected and that, learning this in the light of the Scriptures, they may have hope for the future. The present unhappy conditions on earth will, as the Scriptures plainly show, culminate in the greatest tribulation ever known in the world. That will be the end of all trouble; and the great battle of Armageddon will be followed by the full and complete establishment of God’s kingdom under Christ, and then lasting peace and prosperity will be on earth to stay and righteousness shall rule in every part of the earth. That will be the fulfilment of the angelic anthem of peace and good will sung 1900 years ago. May you study this report with profit to yourselves, and may you see your privilege to join in making known to others that Jehovah is God and that his kingdom is the hope of the human race.
REPORT
Jehovah’s witnesses scattered throughout the earth are merely advertising agents of the Eternal King and his kingdom. That does not at all mean that they are engaged in propaganda work. The generally accepted definition of propaganda is this: An organization for the propagation of a doctrine or system, the purpose of which is to cause the membership of the System or organization to increase or enlarge. Religious organizations engage in propaganda, because each system of religion tries to increase its membership. The work of Jehovah’s witnesses for his kingdom is entirely a different matter. The principles of Jehovah God are fixed, and never change, and Jehovah does not put forth an effort, nor authorize any creature to put forth an effort, to increase his organization or to propagate his doctrines. He furnishes the information to men to enable men to exercise their free will either to serve his kingdom of righteousness or to take the opposite course.
The divine commission given to Jehovah’s witnesses is in these words: ‘‘The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.’’ — Isa. 61:1-3.
Jehovah’s chief purpose is the vindication of his name and to prove to all creation that he is supreme. “Zion” is the name given to his organization, including the faithful on earth who follow in the footsteps of Christ Jesus. Concerning such he says: “For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the [nations] shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.” (Isa. 62:1, 2) The new name which he has given those devoted to him is ‘‘Jehovah’s witnesses”, and to them he says: ‘‘Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.”—Isa. 43:10.
Jehovah God has never made any attempt to convert the world, but he has merely taken out from the nations of the world a small number of persons whom he has commissioned to be his witnesses, and has Commanded them to make known to the rulers of the nations and to the people that Jehovah is the Supreme One; that Christ Jesus is his Chief Officer and earth’s rightful King; that he has enthroned Christ Jesus as King of the world, and he is the One who executes Jehovah God’s judgments of vengeance against the workers of iniquity. These judgments were written long ago and are directed against Satan and all who serve him. God has placed his King upon his throne, and his work now is to oust Satan and his organization, and then will follow in the earth complete peace and prosperity. Then all men who render themselves in obedience to God’s kingdom of righteousness will be given the opportunity for life everlasting. The work of Jehovah’s witnesses, therefore, is merely to make known these truths, and if it pleases others to believe them and deport themselves accordingly, well and good for them; otherwise they fail to receive the benefits of God’s gracious arrangements. The testimony concerning God and his kingdom is contained in the Word of God, which is the Bible, and is the truth; and Jehovah's witnesses are his agents or instruments to bear or bring this message of truth to others, that they may have an opportunity to know Jehovah God and Christ Jesus. The proclamation of these truths brings no profit to Jehovah or to Christ Jesus, but for the people to know them is of vital importance, as it is written: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3) There is nothing that is of so great interest, convenience and public necessity as the truth of and concerning Jehovah God and his kingdom.
AMERICA
The field for the work of Jehovah’s witnesses embraces the entire earth, but the chief part of their witness work must be done in the nations called ‘‘Christendom”. These nations, having assumed the name of the Lord, are in an implied covenant to do his will, and hence are in a more responsible position than the “heathen”. The Lord commands, therefore, that notice and warning shall be particularly given to the nations called “Christendom”. Within the borders of “Christendom” there are many persons of all nationalities. “Christendom” well corresponds to ancient Jerusalem, where the witness work was originally chiefly done, but which included other nationalities because of the cosmopolitan population there assembled.
The main office of the Society conducting the work of Jehovah’s witnesses is situated at Brooklyn, New York. At the Brooklyn headquarters there are 196 persons jointly engaged in the work of the Society. These reside at 124 Columbia Heights and at the radio station on Staten Island, and all work as one family or organization. There are no bosses or masters amongst them, but all are on a common level. The relationship of master and servant does not exist. Expressed in commercial terms of this world, all of these persons are copartners, since each one has the same interest in the work. The organization and its work are such that each one has an assigned duty and that duty is performed by each one as unto the Lord, each one knowing that his responsibility for faithfulness is to Jehovah God and not to human creatures. This arrangement assures an efficiency in service that could not be had in any other way. No one receives any pecuniary profit in the operation of the Society’s work. Each and every one of the aforementioned workers has his or her board and lodging furnished by the Society, and in addition thereto each one receives the small allowance of fifteen dollars per month for clothing and other incidental expenses. Each one is a witness for Jehovah, and therefore each one is a preacher of the gospel of the kingdom of God.
All of Jehovah’s witnesses throughout America, and in fact throughout the earth, are likewise copartners, each one striving to get on with the work of witnessing for the Kingdom in obedience to the commandments of the Lord. Each pioneer or field worker who goes from house to house with the literature is a preacher of the gospel, and in no sense of the word is engaged in any commercial work. The publications of the Society are first for the instruction, aid and comfort of the workers. The publications contain the Scriptural message that is of help and comfort to all persons who have a desire to learn the truth and to take their stand on the side of Jehovah God and his kingdom. The field workers are not commercial salesmen, and they are not engaged in any commercial business or transaction whatsoever. Those in the Society’s work could not be hired for a money consideration to do the work that they are doing. Each one of them has made a covenant or an agreement with Jehovah God to do His will and to obey His commandments, and since God commands them to tell His message of truth and commands them to go and tell it to others, they do so in obedience to His commandments. In doing this work they are not attempting to earn a living of earthly bread. Most of their work is done at a large money sacrifice. For these witnesses to engage in this work on a commercial basis would be a violation of their covenant with Jehovah God. They having agreed to obey the Lord God in doing this work, a failure to do the same on their part would mean the loss of everything to them, including life itself.
Having become the followers of Christ Jesus, these witnesses of Jehovah are followers of Christ Jesus and are under the immediate command of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s great Prophet of whom Moses was a type. They must hear and obey Christ Jesus, as it is written: ‘‘For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.” (Acts 3: 22, 23) For this reason it is easy to be seen that it would be wholly inconsistent for these witnesses to ask permission of any earthly organization to engage in giving the testimony of and concerning God’s kingdom. The doctrines of and concerning the kingdom of God are set forth at pages twenty and following of the Year Book of this organization of 1934, to which reference is here made.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
As long as this present world exists money will be used to measure the value of labor and other material things; hence it is needful to receive and pay out money in carrying on the work of the Society. The message of and concerning God’s kingdom is furnished and published as a means of transmitting the truth to the people who desire to hear it. Almost every person is more likely to read a book or paper if he has spent some money to obtain the same or contributed some money for the particular cause which that book or paper represents. The publications of the Society, therefore, are exhibited to the people, and the people are given an opportunity to contribute a small amount of money, which money is used exclusively to carry forward the educational, charitable and benevolent work of the Society. In the testimony delivered at the time of the exhibiting such books the witness names an amount that might be contributed. Where the persons to whom the testimony is given have no money, a less amount is taken, and often the books are given to them freely. Subscriptions are taken for the semimonthly magazines, The Watchtower and The Golden Age, all of which money goes into the funds of the Society and is used to carry on its work No advertisements are carried by these publications, and hence there is no other source of revenue from them. Because the labor is furnished voluntarily, and because of the frugal and economical way in which Jehovah’s witnesses live, a great amount of work at a minimum cost or expenditure of money is carried on.
The fiscal year of the Society is from October 1 to the following September 30. For the year of 1934, ending September 30 of that year, the receipts and expenditures, briefly summed up, are as follows:
Money received for books, booklets, Bibles, transcription machines, phonographs, subscriptions for The Golden Age and for
The Watchtower, total .... $527,744.31
The total amount expended for raw material, manufacture of books, and advertising the gospel of the kingdom by radio, including field workers and the gift of books, to wit, the sum of ..... $677,699.73
Thus it will be seen that the amount of money received by reason of all its publications is far less than that expended and thus leaves a deficit for the year of $149,955.42.
This deficit, however, is offset in the following manner: Companies of Jehovah’s witnesses in various parts of the country have paid in cash some accounts for the broadcasting of the message by radio, and these amounts have been credited to them by the Society as donations, and these amounts total $64,072.93. In addition thereto the Society has received by bequests and by unsolicited donations from persons desiring to further the work of the Lord’s kingdom, the total sum of $120,990.91. The above two items total $185,063.84. Subtracting therefrom the deficit of $149,955.42 leaves a cash balance on hand at the end of the year of $35,108.42 to proceed with the work for the ensuing year. The Society follows the policy of paying bills as it goes, and does not incur indebtedness, except the indebtedness on real estate, which is secured by mortgage.
FACTORY
The Society maintains at 117 Adams St., Brooklyn, New York, a printing and book-manufacturing plant, and all who serve there or at the Bethel home, where they are housed, do so voluntarily. They are not employees, but are coworkers in the Lord’s witness work. At the office and factory the message is translated into many languages, the proof is carefully read, type is set, plates made, and the printing done, and the books and other publications are prepared and sent out to the field workers to carry the message to the people.
During the fiscal year there was an average of 135 workers in the factory and office. Each one is given experience at at least two jobs in the office and factory and is shifted from one to the other as the occasion requires. The factory operates eight and one-half hours per day, on an average, except Saturday, when the operation is one-half day. Working days for the past twelve months total 268 1/2. Twice during the year, because of greater demands for literature, the factory was operated for two hours in the evening, and during stated times there was an extra shift put on at night to meet the demand for literature.
PRODUCTION
The production at the factory during the fiscal year exceeds that of the previous year. Books and booklets were produced during the year to the number of 25,740,032. This is an average of more than two million per month. The greater amount of these pieces of literature was booklets, which shows an increase over the previous year of more than five million. The bound books are less than they were the preceding year. In addition to books and booklets produced at the factory, magazines, calendars, catalogues and folders were printed and sent out, reaching a grand total of 84,661,201 pieces. Of this number, forty-two million were folders used to advertise radio and transcription lectures. A brief comparison of the production for the fiscal year and the preceding year is set forth as follows:
Bound books
1,942,153
2,974,343
Booklets
23,797,880
18,339,816
Watchtower
1,330,145
1,240,450
Golden Age
2,408,400
3,451,300
Calendars
17,254
16,000
Catalogues
128,730
75,000
Radio folders
30,317,000
31,373,800
Transcription folders
11,697,000
Odd job printing
13,021,137
4,175,006
Phonographs
1,245
Transcription machines
Total
84,661,202
61,645,715
The publications issued by the Society from its Brooklyn factory during the year were issued in 38 different languages. Below is given a list of the publications, and set opposite each one is the language in which it has been issued during the fiscal year:
Harp of God: English, Chinyanja, Yoruba.
Deliverance: Arabic, Danish, Swedish.
Creation: English, Danish.
Reconciliation: Japanese, Spanish, Yoruba.
Government: English, Finnish, Netherlandish, Spanish.
Prophecy: French, Polish, Swedish.
Light, Book I: Danish, Polish, Swedish.
Light, Book II: Danish, Italian, Polish, Swedish.
Vindication, Book I: Danish, Greek, Italian.
Vindication, Book II: Finnish.
Preservation: English, German.
Preparation: English.
Tear Book: English, Swedish.
Angels: English.
Prosperity: Famine: English.
Righteous Euler: English, Italian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian.
World Recovery: English.
Beyond the Grave: English
His Works: English.
Intolerance: English, Greek, Italian, South African Dutch, Spanish, Ukrainian.
Dividing the People: English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, South African Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
Kingdom: English, Fijian, Hocano, Maori, Polish, Slovak, Tagalog, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu.
Who Is God?: Bohemian, French, German, Japanese, Polish, South African Dutch.
What Is Truth?: English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, South African Dutch, Swedish.
Cause of Death: English, German.
Hereafter: English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, South African Dutch, Swedish.
Liberty: English, French, German.
Final War: English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
What You Need: English.
Health and Life: English, French, German.
Home and Happiness: English, French.
Keys of Heaven: English.
Heaven and Purgatory: Spanish, Ukrainian.
Crimes and Calamities: Spanish.
War or Peace: Spanish, Ukrainian.
Where Are the Dead?: English, Chinyanja, Maori, Spanish.
Hell: Lithuanian.
Lord’s Return: Bulgarian.
The Crisis: English, Chinese, Chinyanja, Croatian, Hoeano, Japanese, Malay, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, Xosa, Yoruba.
Standard: Chinyanja, Besuto, Xosa.
Escape to the Kingdom: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Hocano, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Sesuto, Slovak, South African Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Xosa, Yoruba.
RAW MATERIAL
In order to produce the foregoing the Society must first provide the raw material. Before purchasing such raw material our purchasing department carefully examines and checks the various products, and contracts for the same in large quantities and at the lowest possible rate. During the year, for its publications the Society required 2,081 tons of paper. Ink made in our own factory, 36,794 pounds. In addition thereto it produced the paint to keep the property of the Society in preservation.
MECHANICAL DEVICES
The Society has found it advantageous in advertising the Kingdom message to use transcription machines and phonographs, and these are called mechanical sound devices for preaching the gospel. The factory force at 117 Adams Street, for a portion of the time during the year, has been engaged in manufacturing these sound machines in order that they might be produced and placed in the hands of the workers at the least possible cost. These machines the Society has paid for, of course, and furnished many of the field workers with them, while other field workers have contributed money to help pay for such machines; and companies have contributed money that they might have a machine for the reproduction of lectures in their respective vicinities. During the year there have been manufactured transcription machines to the number of 258, with microphone attachments to the number of 100; phonographs, to the number of 1,245. The cost of this is included in the expenditures mentioned aforesaid.
MACHINERY
It is needful from time to time to replace the machinery for this manufacturing work, also to provide trucks and automobiles for the transmission to the shipping points and for the distribution of literature in the field and for preaching the gospel by going from place to place.
FAMILY AT BETHEL
The entire company of 196 persons hereinbefore mentioned constitute the family of Bethel, meaning the “House of God”. They come from different parts of the country, having heretofore engaged in various vocations, but at the Bethel all are engaged in one common cause of preaching the gospel of God's kingdom. All those working at the factory are provided with room, board and other accommodations at 124 Columbia Heights, the Bethel home. During the year there have been six separate and distinct periods set aside for special witness work, in which the Bethel family has participated; and for the purpose of permitting them to have this opportunity at stated times the factory, office and home have been closed. Other field workers will be interested to know that during the year those constituting the Bethel family, and who have been able to participate in the special field service, have done so, and their work is as follows:
Number of workers 192
Books placed 1,516
Booklets placed 58,801
Total books and booklets placed 60,317
In connection with this part of the work an automobile for the transcription machine has been used during three months of the year. In that time 67 meetings have been held; 107 lectures given. This has been an added means of getting the message to the people in and about the city of New York. During the year men were sent out from the Bethel family to serve companies in other places, to the number of 184.
ACCOMMODATIONS
In furnishing necessary accommodations of room and food for the Bethel family the Society provides an orderly arrangement. The position of supply steward is maintained, whose duties are to see that food is provided and brought into the family for preparation and consumption. To supply such food the Society maintains and operates a garden on its property on Staten Island, where vegetables are produced for the benefit of the family; also a place in Florida, where vegetables are likewise produced for the family during the winter. The object is to supply the Bethel family with food at the most economical price and which at the same time is healthful and for their best physical welfare. The Society also provides a maintenance steward, whose business is to look after the maintenance of the property and to see that the material is furnished for repairs in keeping the property in condition. All this work is done voluntarily by those who are devoted to the Lord and his kingdom cause.
SHIPMENTS
The Brooklyn factory manufactures books, booklets and other literature, not only for the United States, but for Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, Australia, and other places. Books dispatched or shipped from the Brooklyn office during the year exceed that of any previous year, total shipment amounting to 23,053,126 volumes. These were sent out in many different languages and to many parts of the earth. In shipments this is an increase over the previous year of 3,440,609. A more detailed statement of these shipments is as follows:
Branch Offices 8,550,181
Companies 8,953,531
Pioneers 4,451,466
Auxiliaries 914,787
Miscellaneous 183,161
Total 23,053,126
To facilitate the shipment for distribution within the borders of the United States and adjoining territory the Society maintains depots at Los Angeles, Seattle, and St. Louis, the depot formerly maintained at Oakland, California, being moved from there to Los Angeles. Shipments from the Brooklyn factory are made in carload lots or large consignments to these respective depots and from there reshipped for distribution amongst the people. As the commercial depression increases, the demand from the people for literature concerning God’s kingdom increases. Otherwise stated, many sober-minded persons desire to know more about God’s purposes and hence avail themselves of the opportunity to read the Scriptural helps provided.
By way of comparison, the book Preparation had the widest circulation during the year and hence the largest amount shipped from the factory. This indicates that many more people are anxious to know what the preparation for Armageddon means, and there is only one way to find the correct explanation, and that is in the Scriptures, and the book Preparation helps to understand the Scriptures on this point in particular. The greater demand for booklets is due to the fact that many persons are not able to provide themselves with all the books and they feel too independent to permit the same to be given to them. Their desire is to help as far as they can to get the message to the people. When it is considered that the publications were issued in 38 different languages from the Brooklyn office this year, and all together, English and foreign, 171 different publications issued and shipped to every part of the earth, one may have some conception of the work that must be done in order to get this message of the Kingdom to the people. In addition to the books manufactured and shipped from the Brooklyn factory, Bibles to the number of 20,726 have been sent out. This shows a healthy increase amongst the people desiring to know more about God's Word.
In addition to the foregoing shipment of books and booklets the Golden Age magazine and the Watchtower magazine were printed and made ready and placed in the mails to the number of 3,738,545; also catalogues, placards, calendars, radio and transcription folders and other material that was manufactured and shipped; also the Year Book prepared and shipped out. In addition to this, transcription and phonograph machines were manufactured and shipped. The packing and shipping entail a lot of work, and the furnishing and packing of cartons, books and other material that is used for shipment. The shipping charges alone during the year cost the Society approximately $100,000.00.
By way of illustrating the efficiency and the zeal put forth by the brethren in the office, who manufacture these books and booklets, the following is stated: The booklet Prosperity-Famine copy was furnished on August 12. This, of course, had to be proofread, set in type, made up into pages and the manufacture begun, and on September 5 the first order of three million was completed and on the way to the different parts of the country. Of course, this was an extra rush in order to get the booklet into the hands of the people before the “union prayer meeting of the clergy and distinguished men’’ began.
In addition to the English publications shipped from the Brooklyn office during the year there were also shipped in foreign languages the following:
Afrikaans
72,978
Lithuanian
13,131
Albanian
11,063
Malay
4,322
Arabic
29,887
Maori
10,903
Armenian
12,783
Netherlandish
10,709
Bohemian
11,090
Norwegian
12,363
Bulgarian
4,603
Polish
115,855
Chinese
52,394
Portuguese
15,399
Chinyanja
16,305
Rumanian
2,723
Croatian
9,550
Russian
35,392
Danish
50,008
Serbian
2,564
Estonian
Sesuto
5,470
Fijian
2,496
Slovak
79,705
Finnish
24,022
Slovenian
5,305
French
68,266
Spanish
425,045
German
138,374
Swedish
91,606
Greek
62,620
Tagalog
34,131
Hebrew
1,143
Turkish
5,364
Hungarian
14,247
Ukrainian
66,357
Icelandic
8,161
Xosa
10,851
Ilocano
15,294
Yiddish
21,100
Italian
164,763
Yoruba
55,698
Japanese
22,810
Zulu
5,120
Korean
Lettish
Total
1,822,396
PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION
The chief work of Jehovah’s witnesses is the publication of the gospel or good news of the Kingdom. This is done in obedience to God’s commandments. To his witnesses Jehovah says: ‘Ye are my witnesses that I am God; go and tell the people.’ (Isa. 43:10,12; 6:9) Jesus and his disciples did that very thing. All of his true followers must do likewise, because these are called to walk in his steps. (1 Pet. 2:21) Everyone who becomes a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ must obey his commandments. Moses was a type of Christ Jesus, and concerning the Lord Jesus Christ God caused Moses to declare and afterward the apostle Peter to repeat: “For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.” (Acts 3:22,23) Jehovah’s witnesses, therefore, have no alternative. If they would please the Lord God and receive his approval they must obey the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amongst the commandments is the following: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations: and then shall the end come.” (Matt. 24:14) This latter commandment especially applies to the present time and must be performed now by everyone who is of Jehovah’s capital organization. That Jehovah’s witnesses are doing today exactly what Jesus and the apostles did is shown by the following scriptures as recorded in Luke 9:1-6 and in Acts 20:20. Jesus sent forth his disciples to preach the gospel from house to house, and in obedience to his commandments, as stated by the apostle Paul, they went from house to house telling the people concerning God and his kingdom. Now the time has come when the world has ended, and this good news of the Kingdom must be proclaimed to the people, and the Lord has commanded that it shall be published to them.
Books must first be manufactured before they can be published. Publication means notification to the people either by words, writing or printing; a proclamation or promulgation, such as the publication of the gospel. It consists of the act of offering a book or booklet to the public either for a money consideration, contribution or gratuitous distribution. Let it be kept in mind that Jehovah’s witnesses are his publication agents, that the gospel is published by reason of his commandments, and that the men and women go from house to house exhibiting the gospel of the Kingdom in printed form and thus publish it or make it known to others as God has commanded them.
Under the immediate jurisdiction of the Brooklyn office are the United States and other countries, and islands of the sea, to the number of twenty-one in all. In these various places Jehovah’s witnesses, as publishing agents, have gone from house to house exhibiting the literature to the people and placing the same in the hands of those who desire them. Within this immediate jurisdiction testimonies have been given to the number of 25,537,791; there have been placed in the hands of the people within this jurisdiction during the year books and booklets to the number of 11,325,908. This is an increase in the publication or distribution of books over the year 1933 of 1,453,573.
OPPOSITION
The above-mentioned work of publication has been done in the face of tremendous opposition. This opposition has come chiefly from the religionists. Clergymen have incited police officers and magistrates, and others, to wage a bitter warfare of persecution against Jehovah’s witnesses. The reason for such opposition and persecution should be made clear, and the only way to make it clear is to call attention to God’s Word; which is here done.
Light and darkness are diametrically opposed to each other. Concerning Jehovah God it is written: “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” Jehovah God is the fountain of light and life. Concerning him it is written: “Bless Jehovah, O my soul! Jehovah my God thou art exceeding great, majesty and state hast thou put on: wrapping thyself in light as a mantle, stretching out the heavens as a tent- curtain.”—Psalm 104:1,2, Roth. Pss.
Jehovah God sent his beloved Son to earth to bear witness to the truth, and concerning him it is written: “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”—John 1: 4,9.
Jesus declared: “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12) Jesus came to bear witness to the truth, and every one who is of the truth must do likewise. Jehovah’s witnesses, therefore, are bearers of the light of the gospel of God’s kingdom. Concerning them it is written: “Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day.” (1 Thess. 5: 5) Again, concerning those who are the followers of Jesus it is written: "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”—Eph. 5:8,11.
Satan the Devil is the prince of darkness, because all his deeds are wicked. For long he has been the god or ruler of this wicked world, which he has ruled in darkness and wickedness. (Eph. 6:12; 2 Cor. 4:3,4) Satan is the great adversary of Jehovah God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He hates the light and loves darkness, and all of his agents follow in his lead. All opposition to the light is engendered by Satan and is carried on by him and his active agents. Satan, the god of this world, employs fraud and deception and by this means blinds the minds of the people that do not believe the truth, and this he does lest the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ should shine unto them. (2 Cor. 4:4) It is written: "All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." (Eph. 5:13) The truth of God’s Word, therefore, makes manifest or publishes the fact of the wickedness of Satan and his agents and reproves such, and hence calls forth the wicked opposition of Satan.
Jehovah God has taken out of the world Christ Jesus and his faithful followers as his witnesses. Christ Jesus is the great witness, the Faithful and True Witness, and his followers are and must be witnesses to Jehovah. (Acts 15:14-16) These witnesses must show forth the praises of Jehovah God and Christ Jesus, who have called them out of the darkness of Satan’s organization and given them the light of truth. (1 Pet. 2: 9,10) Concerning the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ the apostle says for himself and all who are of like mind: “For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”—2 Cor. 4:5,6.
These scriptures show that the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, who are of Jehovah’s witnesses, must be publishers of the truth. To them has been committed the testimony of Jesus Christ, which testimony they must deliver by going from house to house and telling the people about the Kingdom, and this they must do regardless of all opposition. Necessarily they are the objects of Satan’s wrath, and he seeks their destruction. One of the names of Satan the Devil is “Dragon”, and concerning him and Jehovah’s witnesses it is written: ‘‘And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Rev. 12:17) The woman mentioned in this last text is God’s organization. The remnant mentioned therein are Jehovah’s faithful witnesses, a few of whom are now on earth; and these are the seed of God’s organization, the children of Jehovah and his woman. (Isa. 54:13) These faithful ones keep the commandments of Jehovah God, and in order to do so they must deliver the testimony of Jesus Christ, which has been committed to them.
The foregoing scriptures clearly prove that there is a deadly conflict between that which is light and that which is darkness; that Jehovah, Christ Jesus and the faithful followers of Jesus stand for the light of truth; that Satan the Devil is the personification of darkness, and all who practice the works of darkness are the agents of Satan. Upon this point, says the scripture: “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (Rom. 6:16) It is therefore clear to be seen that those who oppose God and his work are the servants of the Devil. This is true regardless of what they may claim to be.
The method employed by Satan is that of fraud and deceit. His name Devil means “deceiver”; and the one means employed to deceive the people more than any other one thing has been and is that of religion. From the days of Nimrod down to the present time religion has been used to blind the people and to turn them away from God and his light of truth.
The greatest religious system that exists on earth, or ever did exist on earth, is the Roman Catholic hierarchy, controlled by a few men and under which have been brought millions of people of honest desires. Satan has used the Roman Catholic hierarchy to blind millions of people. They have been taught error. The Hierarchy has claimed to represent God and the Bible, and at the same time has kept the people in ignorance of what the Bible contains. There are millions of good, honest people who are under the Catholic organization that would turn to God if the eyes of their understanding were opened to the truth. The obligation is laid upon those of Jehovah’s witnesses to take to such persons the truth in order that they may have a chance to have the eyes of their understanding opened.
The mere fact that men or organizations made up of men claim to represent God and Christ is no evidence whatsoever that they do represent God and Christ. In the days of the apostles men were claiming and attempting to do this very thing. They were the apostles of the Devil, but transformed themselves apparently into ministers of light. Concerning this it is written: “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” (2 Cor. 11:13-15) The religious teachers when Jesus was on earth claimed to be sons of God, and claimed to represent him, and yet they were the active agents of the Devil, keeping the people in darkness and doing violence unto God’s kingdom and his anointed King, Christ Jesus. Concerning this Jesus said to those religionists, as it is written: “Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." — John 8: 41-44.
This Scriptural proof is here set out in order to show that the opposition to Jehovah’s witnesses originates with the Devil and is carried on by the Devil’s representatives, and that the chief part of the active opposition that is visible to men is at the instance of the clergy, and particularly the Roman Catholic hierarchy. The very basis of Satan’s organization, which he uses to persecute those doing right, is commerce or traffic; and this is shown by the Scriptures. (Ezek. 28:15-18) The method used is to charge Jehovah’s witnesses with being engaged in a commercial business and to cause their arrest under ordinances which prohibit traffic, such as hawking and peddling. These charges against Jehovah’s witnesses are wholly false, because they are not in anywise engaged in a commercial business. They could not be hired for money to engage in the work in which they are engaged. They are doing the witness work wholly in obedience to God’s commandments, because they love God and love to do his will.
During the year, within the United States alone, 340 of Jehovah’s faithful witnesses have been arrested on charges of violating the commercial laws and thrown into prison. The greater number of these arrests have taken place within the state of New Jersey, and it is well known that the one who is backing these, persecutions is the Catholic bishop, known as the bishop of Trenton, who gives orders to Roman Catholic policemen to lie in wait for or search out Jehovah’s witnesses, arrest them and throw them into jail. Notwithstanding the fact that the courts of New Jersey have repeatedly held that these witnesses of Jehovah are not violating the ordinances, the arrests and persecution continue. Policemen have remarked that they receive their orders and must carry them out, and their orders come from the clergy.
These arrests and persecutions God long ago foretold in the prophecy of the eighty-third Psalm. The Lord foretells a conspiracy formed by Satan and his agents to destroy Jehovah’s witnesses and their work, because they are telling the truth. (Ps. 83:2-5) The foregoing arrests in. the United States, as well as the arrests of Jehovah’s witnesses in other parts of tha earth, are overt acts on the part of these conspirators against God and his anointed ones, and the purpose of which is to prevent them from being witnesses to Jehovah and making known the truth to others. It is a conflict of darkness against the light. The fact that opposition continues, however, is no reason whatsoever for Jehovah’s witnesses to cease their efforts. They must go on and bear testimony to the truth.
PERMITS
Certain municipalities have enacted ordinances which declare that no one shall go from house to house without first receiving a permit so to do, which permit is to be signed by an officer of the police department. It is attempted to apply this law to Jehovah’s witnesses. No doubt if Jehovah’s witnesses should apply for a permit the same would be denied, but to apply for such permit would be an insult to Jehovah God and in disobedience to his law. No witness of Jehovah could apply for a permit without jeopardizing his own eternal welfare, and the reason they do not apply for such permits is set forth as follows, to wit: Jehovah God is supreme, and his law is above every law. He sent Jesus Christ into the world to do as God had commanded him. What Jesus did and what he commands his followers to do they must do. They must obey God and Christ Jesus, and not man, when man’s laws conflict with God’s laws.
The United States of America was founded as a government upon the announced principles of equality, freedom of speech, and freedom of worship of Almighty God. The supreme court of the United States in the case of Church vs. United States, reported in 143, United States Reports, page 457, holds that the United States is a Christian nation. Justice Brewer in that case reviews such matters of the worship of Almighty God or the practice of Christianity, and amongst other things says: “Beyond all these matters no purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, State or Nation, because this is a religious nation. This is historically true. From the discovery of the continent to the present hour there is a single voice making this confirmation. . . . These and many other matters that might be noticed add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.”
The supreme court of New Jersey, where many of the foregoing persecutions have been carried on, as early as 1837 in the case of State vs. Robert Lash, 16 N. J. L. 380, held that this is a Christian nation and recognized the Bible as authority. In fact, the courts throughout the United States have uniformly held that the United States is a Christian nation and that the states are a part of that Christian nation.
By reason of the foregoing decisions of the courts, as well as the Constitutional provision, the United States and all state authorities are precluded and estopped from denying that the Bible containing the commandments of Jehovah God and Christ Jesus is the superior authority and therefore above the authority of any state, nation, municipality or other legal entity. The presumption must therefore be indulged that all of the lawmaking bodies in America, in enacting laws concerning peddling and hawking, have no purpose or intention of interfering in the practice of true Christianity by those following the footsteps of Jesus. A legislative body or municipality could not enact an ordinance or law diametrically opposed to the Word of Jehovah God and at the same time truly claim to be a Christian nation. If the laws relative to hawkers and peddlers can be enforced against Jehovah’s witnesses, then the claim that the American government is a Christian nation is an absurdity. This point is here made to show that the prosecution of Jehovah’s witnesses for preaching the gospel is therefore against even the laws of the land of the United States.
Above all, this persecution is against Jehovah God and Christ Jesus and his kingdom. The apostles took the lead and made the rule which Jehovah’s witnesses must now follow. When they were being sent out by the Lord Jesus himself to preach the gospel they did not go to towns or municipalities and ask for permission so to do. They went in obedience to God’s commandments and the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were often arrested and brought into courts, charged with a violation of the law for speaking and preaching and publishing the gospel of the Lord’s kingdom. On one occasion the presiding judge of the court addressing these faithful followers of Jesus Christ said: “Did not we straitly command you, that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. ” — Acts 5:28, 29.
On another occasion the apostle, when commanded by the courts not to teach in the name of Christ Jesus, replied: “Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.’’ (Acts 4:19, 20) It is therefore manifest that these witnesses of Jehovah could not obey the Lord God and the Lord Jesus Christ and at the same time ask for permission to go from house to house to preach the gospel.
It is also clear to be seen that Satan the Devil, through his religious agents, leads this persecution; and it may be expected that the persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses will continue until the Lord himself rises up at Armageddon and smites the persecutors as a vindication of his own name. To his faithful followers Jesus said concerning these persecutors: “These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. . . . But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.’’ — John 15: 17-21.
As an evidence that the act of Jehovah’s witnesses in going from door to door to publish and publishing the message of God’s kingdom in book and booklet form is not a commercial transaction, we cite the fact that the publication of the message in book and booklet form done by the Society during the fiscal year was done at a far greater expense than the amount of money contributed for the books and booklets. The deficit during the year amounts to $149,955.42. In addition to that, during the year the Society furnished to the pioneers in the field credit to the amount of $15,163.17. Over and above this, many of the pioneers or Jehovah’s witnesses going from place to place do so at their own expense, paying out money which they have earned and saved while engaged in other work prior to entering the pioneer service. The alleged violation of the commercial laws, such as of peddling and hawking, is seized upon as a pretext and subterfuge to cause the arrest and persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses, because no other ground can be found to so arrest them. Regardless of this persecution, however, Jehovah’s witnesses will continue to obey God and Christ Jesus as God’s Chief Officer, and not to obey man. They will do nothing to violate the law of God, nor the law of man that is in harmony with God's law. They will do injury to no man, but will do good to all as opportunity affords. This they have been doing throughout the year in carrying the gospel of the Kingdom to the people.
In passing, however, we call attention again to the Scriptures, that the Lord Jesus declared that the ill- treatment administered to his faithful followers he counts as ill-treatment to himself and that in due time the persecutors of his witnesses shall receive a just recompense. These persecutors are likened unto goats who have ill-used his faithful followers, and concerning them the words of Jesus are quoted, as follows: "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ya gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. . . . Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”—Matt. 25:41-43,45.
RADIO
Another means employed for the publication of the gospel of God’s kingdom under Christ is the radio. Men have assumed to regulate the radio as though it were a man-made invention. Radio is God's means provided for making known the truth, and which should be employed exclusively in the proclamation of the truth. Like all things else, however, the Devil has attempted to use the radio exclusively, and God suffers or permits Satan to remain and carry on his nefarious work until due time for his destruction. (Ex. 9:16) The Lord God permits his faithful witnesses, however, to still have some use of the radio in the proclamation of the truth. In the United States, during the year, 357 radio stations have been employed from time to time to broadcast the Kingdom message. Stations outside of the United States have been used to the number of 60. There have been fourteen chain programs put on in the United States in that time. Today many radio stations are broadcasting the truth by means of electrical transcription, and this in the face of the vicious campaign of opposition carried on by the Catholic hierarchy. During the year, by electrical transcription radio programs have been broadcast to the number of 20,743. This part of the publication of the Kingdom message has entailed the expenditure of a great amount of money, but the Lord has graciously provided this, putting it in the hearts of others to contribute the money for that purpose. Outside of the United States radio stations have been employed to broadcast the truth in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Esthonia, France, Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The total number of stations on earth broadcasting the truth during the year is, to wit, 417. In addition to this the Society owns and operates radio station WBBR, which broadcasts the truth each time it is on the air.
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